Ianus J. Wolf

"Hey, should we cover the fact that billionaires and VC are an absolute plague upon everything and point out that as the common factor?"
"No, let's feature some clown writing about how it's all because these few people are gay with some cartoonishly offensive imagery."
Eat all the shit, @wired.com

The decline of right wing cultural production is just due to the fact that they don’t like culture, they like the signifiers of culture, ie “classic sculpture means white people are better.” They don’t like art at all except for this purpose. They don’t even like the nerd stuff they whine about

Technology the left is excited about:
-mRNA vaccines and other medical advances
-high-speed rail
-renewable, sustainable energy
-the Internet when it's not being actively ruined by 5-6 rich assclowns.
-Truly interesting VR stuff

Basically, everything that makes human life and creativity better.

As a Leftist, this is technology I am pretty excited about!

I think more billionaires should keep trying!

One of the greatest scams that the rich ever pulled on us, through the use of their media networks, was convincing most of the general populace to believe that the stock market was the economy.

Epstein and a handful of billionaires singlehandedly orchestrated the decade long global propaganda campaign against trans folk because they are white supremecist eugenecists, not because an it/its genderfluid therian was cringe on the internet once.

"Oh, but the prominent corporate Democrats also had close ties with Epstein. What about that, huh?"

Did I say I cared about party affiliation? Into the Wicker Man Midsommar Happy Fun Hut with them too. The sunset celebration shall bring the dawn of a likely better world in the next day.

"But if you arrest everyone in the Epstein files, our current system will collapse."
Then let's wicker-man every single one of these shitbags in glorious celebrations of the new old ways. Let us dance around the burning remains of a corrupt system that feeds on the youth to enrich old corrupt men.

Love that AI, a thing we hate and don’t want, steals everything, ruins everything, shittifies everything. Drinks our water, plagiarizes our art, pisses all over our information fidelity, drives kids to suicide, serves the right-wing, and fucks up our devices and services. Good job, techbros!

Honestly, they can call it whatever they want if they just put it in my facehole on certain days. I mean, it would be heavy to eat every day, but as a once-in-a-while decadence? Man, those look good. Agreed, would wreck those.

Some Executive circa-1986 (probably): "It's just a kids' movie made to sell toys, so you don't have to knock yourself out."

Vince DiCola: "I am going to make one of the most badass sci-fi scores that you've ever heard, and it will elevate the film with its power and emotion." *shades*

I literally saw a post two weeks back in which a guy with two jobs was flagellating himself because he was short on rent, lamenting that had he donated plasma more, maybe his rent would be on time. This system is deeply fucked. Earth is a pleasure cruise for 1000 people and we're all just the staff.

It's the worst kind of cyberpunk. We get all the horrible things like this stuff, severe wealth inequality, authoritarian surveillance schemes, etc, but none of the cool robot limbs, flying cars, mag-trains, or utterly immersive VR.
Just all the worst of cyberpunk with none of the supposed bonuses.

If you didn't know, the idea of "Try to victimize someone by pretending to have car trouble, then pounce when someone is nice enough to help you" is featured in a movie.

That movie is Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, and it's meant to be disturbing as something a horrible subhuman would do.

I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes.

I keep seeing folks say they'll just accept a Teen Friendly account on Discord rather than scan or ID and I don't know if I wanna mass normalize leaving NSFW pals out in the cold yet again. Especially with all the censorship stuff goin on I think we gotta stand with the freaks now more than ever.

In case you're somehow unaware, this dystopian horror is that rich people who already literally live like royalty want the modern Gestapo to detain and imprison more innocent people for longer periods so that they can further profit off of such misery to needlessly make number go up.

Yeah, every time, the rich don't leave the city where they have roots and would rather live when taxed an amount that literally doesn't change their lifestyle but helps everyone else.

Other municipalities need to stop letting the rich hold them hostage like some kind of comic book supervillains.

Every motherfucker in history that has said any version of, "If you're innocent, you have nothing to fear" has invariably proven that the innocent have everything to fear from draconian identity laws and tracking citizens.

To understand why this is absolutely horrifying:
First, imagine when police/ICE use that feature to find a "suspect" and hunt down anyone the algorithm says "fits the description".
Second, if you still don't get how bad that is, ask any POC in the USA about the history of "you fit the description".

I can remember a time when Rowling's connection to Epstein would have IMMEDIATELY torpedoed every deal she had and sent her straight to radioactive pariah-land. It was barely 10 years ago.

The rich and powerful are rubbing our faces in the fact that consequences for their horrors don't exist.

When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means

A rabbit in overalls and a goat in pants are sitting on the ground drawing pictures. The rabbit is saying “ART POSES A THREAT TO CORPORATOLRATIC SYSTEMS BECAUSE A PURPOSE OF ART IS TO REMIND THE INDIVIDUAL OF THEIR INHERENT AUTONOMY.”, the goat adds “THEIR HUMANITY.”

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More Americans need to remember that every time these Klansmen go around "investigating" artists for doing a performance well within the First Amendment rights because it wasn't white enough, YOU are paying for the efforts they take instead of healthcare, infrastructure, etc. with your taxes.

Okay, which Reps of ours are going to investigate Mark Alford and his goons for wasting government resources and time on fake BS like this that does not enrich or assist the lives of any citizens of the US?
I want healthcare, infrastructure, and opportunity for my taxes. Not this Nazi crap.

A libertarian is just someone who never grew out of the 14-year-old mindset of "When I grow up, there's gonna be no stupid rules, MOM!" and is overprivileged enough to think that can work.

We had a good thing, you stupid son of a bitch! We had the best chat client. We had groups. features, we had everything we needed, and it all ran like clockwork. You could have shut your mouth, collected nitro subscriptions, and made as much money as you ever needed It was perfect - but no! You had to blow it up. Y O U, and your enshittification, and your false pretensions for age restrictions. You just had to be the sellout! If you had done your job, known your place... We'd all be fine right now.

"Teen-by-Default"
Amazing how much our corporate and religious owners really want to infantilize us in every aspect of our lives, hoping we'll just accept their "We know best" attitude in everything from payment processors to chat programs to social media.
But honestly, fuck them, we're adults here.

Because tone doesn't come through text and we don't have an edit button, to be clear, that "Great" should be dripping with sarcastic venom.